Yarn rack



W. S. TRICKETT.

YARN RACK.

' APPLICATION FILED JAN. 7, 1922- 1,422,012,

Patented July 4, 1922.

WALTER S. TRICKETT, OF GROVEVILLE,

NEW' JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HITSSONG TION OF NEW JERSEY.

YARN RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4, 1922.

Application filed. JanuaryV, 1922. Serial No. 527,596.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVALrnr. S. TRICKETT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Groveville, Mercer County, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Yarn Racks, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of yarn racks that are adapted for use in suspending yarn in a dyeing machine so that the rack will be substantialv and can be readily manipulated in loading and unloading yarn.

This object I attain in the following manner, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side View of my improved yarn rack;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view;

Fig. 3 is an end view;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 4-4, Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of Fig. 4

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the bottom members Fig. 7 is a perspective View hangers; and

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of one of the bolts which engage the hangers.

1 is the main frame of my improved yarn rack, consisting of side members 2; top rails 3, spaced from the side members, and transverse bolsters t secured to the rails and to theside members. The main frame has eye bolts by which it can be suspended from an overhead crane. 5 are the bottom members of the rack located directly under the side members 2 and secured thereto by hangers 6. The hangers are U-shaped, as shown in Fig. 7, and are attached to the bottom members 5 by transverse bolts 7 On the sidememhere 2 are sliding bolts 8, which are mounted in plates 9. These plates are notched at 10 of a portion of the rack; of one of the and are slotted at 11 for the passage of the ends of the hangers 6. In the ends of the hangers are holes for the passage of the sliding bolts 8, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

The bottom members 5 are made of a series of sections 12 and 13 secured together by two longitudinal bolts 14. Secured to the under side of the sections of the bottom members are wooden strips 20, which extend the full length of the members. The sections 13 are notched at 15't'o form sockets for the reception of the ends of sticks 16 on which the yarn is suspended. As the sockets in the bottom members are open at the top,

the sticks can be readily removed and other sticks mounted in the sockets, when the bottom members are detached from the main frame. In the present instance, a series of round, transverse rods 17 are carried by the side members 2. The rods are spaced a given distance apart and form a baffle for the dye liquor in circulation in the vat in which the yarn rack is located.

By the above construction, the bottom members of the yarn rack can be substantially made and the partitions between the sockets for the yarn sticks will not split when softened by the dye liquor, as the grain of the wood, from which the sections are made, can be arranged in a vertical position, and, as the bolts 14L extend through all of the sections, they hold them rigidly in position. The bottom members can be easily attached to or removed from the main frame by manipulating the sliding bolts.

After a batch of yarn is dyed, the frame 1 is engaged by an overhead crane and it is lifted out of the vat and onto a suitable support. The bolts 8 are withdrawn, after which the main frame is raised, leaving the bottom members, with the yarn and sticks on the support. The main frame is then carried to another batch of yarn to be dyed, which has previously been mounted on another set of bottom members. When the main frame is in position, the sliding bolts are projected into the holes in the hangers and the frame, with the yarn, is carried over a vat and lowered into position therein.

I claim':

1. The combination in a yarn rack, of a main frame; bottom members located under the sides of the main frame; means for detachably securing the bottom members to the main frame, said bot-tom members being made in sections, some of said sections being notched; and means for securing the sections together.

2. The combination in a yarn rack, of a main frame having side members; a bottom member located under each side member of the rack; means for detachably securing the bottom members to the side members, the bottom members being made in sections, the alternate sections being notched to receive bers;

yarn sticks; and longitudinal securing-bolts extending through the several sections.

3. The combination in a yarn rack of a main frame having side members notched bottom members secured to the side memextending nndeneach bottom member and secured thereto;

4E. The combination in 'a 'yarin rack, of a main frame having side members; a notched bottom member securedito each side member ofth-e frame; a series of hangers secured to longitudinal bolts extending through the bottom members; and a Wooden strip each bottom member; and'bol'ts on the side a 7 WALTER S TRIQKETT. 

